The 2026 FIFA World Cup presents an unusual convergence of sports law, immigration law, event operations, consumer protection, accessibility, and reputational risk. For international players, team personnel, media, event…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
A Disney+ user must arbitrate his claim that ESPN Inc. gave his viewing data to Facebook's parent company Meta without his permission, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled, saying federal arbitration law preempts a…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Privacy
A federal judge in Manhattan declined Thursday to order the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments to grant access to representatives from a players group, after the group claimed its representatives are being denied…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property
On April 8, 2026, Governor Abigail Spanberger approved House Bill 444, establishing the Uniform Consumer Debt Default Judgments Act (the “Act”) as § 8.01–465.26 through § 8.01–465.34 of The Virginia Code…
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/ Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
Roughly 100 million Americans carry some form of medical debt, including many Virginia patients. In the 2025 session, the Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 1725—the Medical Debt Protection Act (the “Act”)—which was…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Health
Roughly 100 million Americans carry some form of medical debt, including many Virginia patients. In the 2025 session, the Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 1725—the Medical Debt Protection Act (the “Act”)—which was…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health
Blake Lively has settled her claims accusing Justin Baldoni's production company of orchestrating a smear campaign after she accused her It Ends With Us co-star of sexually harassing her, the actors announced in a joint…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres announced that control of the franchise will be passed to an ownership group led by investor couple Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano, a few months after the family of the team's late…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Business Organizations, Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment Law
Mission Possible - HR Edition -
Navigating employment law is a challenge, especially when the rules change faster than a supernova. The 42nd Annual Employment Law Update will highlight recent changes to the law and how…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications for two voice clips and one image that may be specifically designed to provide additional protection from artificial intelligence impersonation…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Anthropic PBC has asked a CA federal judge to find that its use of copyrighted materials to train its tool Claude is "transformative" fair use under copyright law, comparing Claude's learning to how humans learn from reading and…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment Law
Though antitrust charges are in play in the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the NFL's deals with services like Amazon Prime and Netflix, experts say they don't see a strong federal case against the league's…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
Is LIV Golf Facing a Funding Cliff? The Sports Law Stakes if Saudi PIF Pulls Back This week’s reports that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) may be reconsidering its financial commitment to LIV Golf have once again put…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court of Virginia (the “VSC”) issued an important opinion in Thibault Enterprises, LLC v. Yost concerning encroachments within an easement with a granted width and when an encroachment may remain in…
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/ Insurance, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The woman known as the "Ketamine Queen" of North Hollywood was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a CA federal judge for several drug dealing-related crimes, including her role in providing the ketamine that led to the 2023…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property
